Board and Officers

Sibongile Bradley West, is an account director for Young Communications Group, Inc., with extensive experience in marketing communications, media relations, political and community outreach. Her clients range from elected officials, to non profit corporations and the entertainment industry. She serves on the board of directors for several nonprofits. She has been a Transcendental Meditation teacher since 1973 and besides teaching in the private sector, she has taught TM in university programs and in several research studies. Board Member and President

Brian Rees, Colonel (ret.) Medical Corps,US Army Reserve, MD, MPH, Tulane Univ. Over 37 years of commissioned military service, 5 tours of duty Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a Graduate of both the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College​, physician at San Luis Obispo Community Based Outpatient Clinic. Lead author of two studies related to the TM program and PTSD relief, published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress (April 2013 and February 2014). Board Member.

​

Dr. Carolyn Gaylord-King: Professor, Department of Physiology and Health, and Senior Researcher, Maharishi University of Management and its Research Institute. She conducted the first federally funded research projects involving the TM technique and is actively involved in research on the effects of TM on health. Ph.D., Psychology, University of Michigan. Member, International Society for Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB).

​Ernie Robson: Masters in Management from the Sloan School at MIT, with an extensive background in management and public service for the US government and a history of business entrepreneurship.

Shujaa Mjasiri, BA in accounting and MBA in Lean Management and Six Sigma methodologies, Maharishi University of Management (MUM). MA Education, Arizona State University. PhD, a.b.d., MUM in Management. Entrepreneur and educational consultant for David Lynch Foundation; specialty: performance management..

Will Van Zandt. Entrepreneur.

﻿"T﻿hey no longer got those horrible ﻿dreams..﻿.."﻿

﻿Dr. John Bukenya knows the suffering the Congolese refugees in the TM and PTSD studies endured. He explains, "Many of them were raped, and others saw their husbands and their wives being taken away or killed... people walked long distances... and here in Uganda, when they came in they couldn't speak the native languages of Uganda or even English.... "And yet, even after so much suffering, they were able to find relief. "When they were instructed in Transcendental Meditation some of them started sleeping and others started feeling good and they no longer got those horrible dreams they used to get."

African PTSD Relief is a project of PTSD Relief Now, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable corporation. African PTSD Relief collaborates with the David Lynch Foundation (DLF), a 501(c)(3). DLF directs all donations restricted to African PTSD Relief to PTSD Relief Now projects in and for Africa.